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Well, what do you think? Avanti?""Avanti," cries everyone, and, after a few quick re-tunings of our ...

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You'll have a good, secure life when being alive means more to you than security, love more than mon...

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No; look out for the part where you think you have done with the goblins and they come back,' breath...

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At a certain place in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, for example, he might feel that he is floating abo...

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A deaf composer's like a cook who's lost his sense of taste. A frog that's lost its webbed feet. A t...

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He supposed that, except musicians, every one thought Beethoven a bore, as every one except mathemat...

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Henry AdamsThe Education of Henry Adams

I should think that to hear such lovely music as that would really make him feel better."The lady ga...

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Henry JamesThe Portrait of a Lady

It was the quartets of Beethoven (numbers 12,13,14, and 15) which over fifty years, created and expa...

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Marcel ProustIn the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower

Through this evening of sentences cut short because their completed meaning was always sorrow, of no...

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Three miles from my adopted city lies a village where I came to peace.The world there was a calm pla...

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